Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
  • Patent number: 4923430
    Abstract: A coin payout apparatus in a gaming device. The apparatus includes a coin hopper and a coin guide connected to the hopper for successively delivering coins in edge-to-edge relationship. A rotary arm is pivotally provided at the coin guide and has one end rotatably providing a coin ejector roller. The rotary arm is normally biased toward the coin in the coin guide by a biasing member. A supplemental coin ejecting member is provided at a position confronting the ejector roller. When the maximum diameter portion of the coin passes through the space defined between ejector roller and the supplemental coin ejecting member, the coin is urgedly discharged by the biasing force of the biasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
    Inventor: Kouichi Iimura
  • Patent number: 4840290
    Abstract: A coin exchanging machine has a coin case disposed at the bottom of a casing for accommodating a plurality of coin bundles, a coin pushing mechanism for pushing laterally a row of coin bundles piled up in the coin case, and a coin transferring mechanism for receiving a row of coin bundles from the coin case by pushing the coin bundles by the coin pushing mechanism and for feeding the coin bundles one by one into a coin accommodating space in response to the discharge of the coin bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
    Inventors: Shunichi Nakamura, Kouichi Iimura, Kikuo Nakamura, Susumu Ozawa
  • Patent number: 4506650
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine, in which a current-supply terminal other than two end terminals of the second winding of the ignition coil is provided in the second winding or at the tertiary winding of the ignition coil: a diode is connected to the current-supplying terminal; a resistor is connected to one end of the secondary winding; the diode and the resistor are connected at one end in common; the spark gap of the combustion engine is connected between the common connection junction and the other end of the secondary winding; and the polarity of the diode is determined to be forward with respect to a discharge current flowing through the spark gap. An auxiliary power source may be provided in a network including the spark gap and the diode for increasing a discharge current of the spark gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma Electronics Planning
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shimojo, Toshio Inamura
  • Patent number: 4478407
    Abstract: A monitor game machine comprising a cock-pit or driver cabin in which a player is seated, a monitor disposed at the front of said cock-pit, and a steering device operated by the player in response to pictures displayed on the screen of said monitor. The driver seat is inclined backward and forward, and right and left in response to the movement of said steering device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
    Inventor: Katsuki Manabe
  • Patent number: 4136301
    Abstract: A spark plug igniter with an auxiliary power source, in which the auxiliary power source is a DC-DC converter including a feedback loop. A high voltage induced in a secondary winding of an ignition coil and a DC voltage generated by the converter are additionally supplied in the same polarity to a spark discharge gap. The feedback loop of the DC-DC converter comprises a feedback winding, a rectifier connected to the feedback winding through a reactance element, and means for connecting the DC output of the rectifier in series to the DC power source of the converter in the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma Electronics Planning
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shimojo, Toshio Inamura